The work is rather too light, bright, and sparkling; it wantsshade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long<...br />chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not of solemn speciousnonsense, about something unconnected with the story; an essay onwriting, a critique of Walter Scott, or a history of Buonaparte,or anything that would form a contrast, and bring the reader withincreased delight to the playfulness and epigrammatism of thegeneral style.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

For this world we live inNone of us is sly enough....Never do we noticeAll is lie and bluff.Caesar beat the Gauls.Was there not even a cook in his army?Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I notAlways spoken the truth in my books? And nowYou treat me like a liar! I order you:Burn me!Those who lead the country into the abyssCall ruling too difficultFor ordinary men.Ah, what an age it isWhen to speak of trees is almost a crimeFor it is a kind of silence about injustice!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amend...ed to be true, they lose their explanatory force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If a joyous elephant should break forth into song, his lay would probably be very much like Whitman's famous "Song of Myself." It ...would have just about as much delicacy and deftness and discrimination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Mad about the boy,I know it's stupid to be mad about the boy,...I'm so ashamed of itBut must admitThe sleepless nights I've had about the boy.On the Silver ScreenHe melts my foolish heart in every single scene.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The pathetic thing about the great wellintentioned mass of college and highschool students is that they have been so badly educate...d they have no knowledge or understanding of the complications of the world we live in and they have been so conditioned and prejudiced by generations of ill-taught teachers that they refuse to see a fact when they are confronted with one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Her mind is inferior to that of man, and we know that it requires the strongest of minds to become a good politician.... She has n...ot sufficient stability of character. She would always follow the opinions of her father, brother or husband ... and this might do more hurt than good.... There is no need of it. There are men enough who have nothing else to do who can transact all necessary business.... If permitted to study politics she would understand the art of governing and she might usurp the authority of men and it would be rather revolting to our feelings to see her holding it over the lords of creation.... She is too fastidious. This needs no comment.... If woman should have the control of affairs, we should soon see woman placed in every department of office in the country, thus throwing many of our most distinguished men out of office, and of course out of employment, or they would not do anything else to support themselves, and would soon become pests to security.... she would soon be able to converse intelligently on the subject of politics, and on this subject equal men.... If we should see ladies attending conventions, traveling about the country in great carts drawn by many yoke of oxen, waving their pocket handkerchiefs to assembled multitudes, it would greatly shock our sensibilities.... She was never designed for it. Her eyes were never made to be spoiled in plodding over political trash.... I presume it would be quite as easy to give 40 times 40 reasons why gentlemen should not engage in politics with such fiery zeal that they sometimes do, as it is to give 40 why ladies should not engage in them as well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

People say we want to teach children how to have sex. God taught us how to have sex. All anybody needs to do, is think about their... first time. Nobody needs to teach you how to have sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »